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Old 03-19-2009, 10:30 PM   #85 (permalink)
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I dropped the car to the ground today to see what it would do. On level ground it cant move under electric only. Even if I drive it to something like 30mph it can't maintain that speed. The batteries are fully charged so it isn't running out of power. Another thing I noticed is it is supposed to be a ccw rotation motor so when I was planning it I figured I would just have the reverse switch upside down to make it right. I haven't wired up reverse yet so it is spinning backwards from what it is supposed to be doing.

If I jack the car up I can actually hold the tire still at full power so I figure something isn't quite right somewhere. It will spin it fine with no load though just backwards from what it is supposed to do. Under any kind of load at all it sounds like a baseball card in spokes so I figure the wiring on the motor is wrong. I will work on that next and see if I can figure out the wiring. There are only 6 wires so it can't be that many combinations to try
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